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Analyzing Logs With Amazon CloudWatch Logs Analytics

Difficulty: Beginner
Duration: Up to 1 hour
Students: 89
Rating: 5/5
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Description

Amazon CloudWatch Logs Analytics allows developers to interactively search and analyze log data. CloudWatch Logs Analytics can be used to query logs from AWS resources such as AWS Lambda functions, AWS CloudTrail, and more. These queries can help developers more effectively troubleshoot issues and discover insights into their systems and applications.

In this lab, you will be introduced to the Amazon CloudWatch Logs Analytics, specifically the CloudWatch Logs Insights capabilities, and learn how to run and save queries in the CloudWatch Logs Analytics console.

Learning objectives

Upon completion of this beginner-level lab, you will be able to:

  • Understand the purpose of Amazon CloudWatch Logs Insights
  • Explore the CloudWatch Logs Insights query syntax
  • Run queries with CloudWatch Logs Insights

Intended audience

  • Candidates for AWS Certified Data Engineer Associate certification
  • Cloud Architects
  • Cloud Developers

Prerequisites

Familiarity with the following will be beneficial but is not required:

  • Amazon CloudWatch Logs

The following content can be used to fulfill the prerequisites:

Updates

August 10th, 2026 - Updated the lab to use the unified CloudWatch Logs Analytics interface that CloudWatch Logs Insights is now a part of

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Lab steps

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  1. Logging In to the Amazon Web Services Console
  2. Introduction to Amazon CloudWatch Logs Insights
  3. Running Queries With CloudWatch Logs Insights

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